Condolence for the passing of Seiji Hata, Professor Emeritus of Kagawa University

On 31st May 2020, just six days before the start of this conference, Professor Emeritus Seiji Hata, a member of the International Steering Committee of HSI2020, passed away at the age of 72. As a professor of Kagawa University, he had been greatly contributing to the organization of HSI conference series since the establishment in 2008.
The committee members of HSI conferences would like to express their heartfelt condolences to the family of the late Professor Emeritus Seiji Hata.

Organizing Committee of HSI 2020

HSI 2020 will take place in virtual spaces.

(a) «Mandatory for being included in Xplore» The private forums site
The presentation movie with narrations (mp4, converted from pptx) must be uploaded to the server in advance. Once the file is upload, the organizing committee sets up the private forums for each presentation. The virtual discussion will be performed in these forums. This is regarded as equivalent to onsite face to face session, and is a mandatory for ALL ACCEPTED AUTHORS.

(b) «Optional» Real time online web session using zoom
In addition to (a), the authors can make their presentations in a real time online session using zoom. This is an optional presentation.

ABOUT THE HSI CONFERENCE SERIES

Rapid changes in information technologies have lead to a boost in the strength and efficiency of human activity. These technologies have an influence on every area of human life, including education, science, business, leisure time, entertainment, government, and health care. Human life is greatly dependent on these systems’ efficiency and performance. The HSI conference has been prepared as a platform for exchanging ideas, knowledge, skills, and experiences in interactions between man and these systems. The HSI conference series has become the very important international conference in the field of Human System Interactions, human system science and engineering, human factors in large complex systems, human space computing and cyber-physical systems, human-environment interactions, and social‐technical systems. This 13th international conference on Human System Interaction will be held in Tokyo, Japan from the 6th to 8th June 2020. The conference will cover the theory, design, and application of human‐system interactions in the areas of science, education, business, industry, services, humanity, environment, health, and government. Aside from the regular presentations, the conference will include keynote addresses from speakers who work both in industry and academia and expects to attract more than 120 participants. Prospective authors are invited to submit papers on any of the topics listed below:

Apart from the aforementioned topics, the conference will include Special Sessions on highly specialized topic areas reporting technical trends and breakthroughs in human-system interaction. We cordially invite you to organize special sessions. Papers in these sessions undergo a regular review process as those in general sessions.